In a message dated 21/01/2008 20:51:19 GMT Standard Time,
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It is characterized by, sudden colony death with a lack of adult bees in/in
front of
the dead-outs. Honey and bee bread are usually present and there is often
evidence of
recent brood rearing. In some cases, the queen and a small number of
survivor bees may
be present in the brood nest. It is also characterized by delayed robbing
I saw exactly this several times in the early days of Varroa before I got
into regular treatments, on one occasion 4 workers and the queen, with no
robbing even though it was early-mid autumn and there were plenty of wasps about.
Chris
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